By Frida Berrigan, Re-postd from TomDispatch
I remember well going to the rodeo at Madison Square Garden in New York City with my six-guns proudly strapped to my hips. I was probably eight or nine years old and those two ivory-handled — okay, undoubtedly plastic — revolvers were probably from a Hopalong Cassidy line of toys. That cowboy character was a favorite of mine on TV and, of course, with my friends I regularly played “cowboys and Indians.” But far more of my war play — we’re talking the early 1950s — came out of World War II, my father’s war, even though the country was then involved in a bloody stalemate of a conflict in Korea. Continue reading “Guns for Tots”
A song from Ontario-based musician 
Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system
June 2016
By Bill Ramsey. May 1, 2016.
“The fruits of the inner man begin only with the shedding of tears. When you reach the place of tears, then know that your spirit has come out from the prison of this world and has set its foot upon the path that leads towards the new age.”
By Nancy Canon, from 
The universe is composed of subjects to be communed with, not objects to be exploited. Everything has its own voice. Thunder and lighting and stars and planets, flowers, birds, animals, trees- all these have voices, and they constitute a community of existence that is profoundly related. – Thomas Berry
By Laurel Dykstra
By Ric Hudgens
